Mark Cavendish in debt for ever to ‘guys who rode out of their skins’

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Cavendish shows off his gold medal and the rainbow jersey that he won in DenmarkMarc Aspland/Marc Aspland

Matt Dickinson

Last updated at 12:01AM, October 3 2011

The euphoria of victory is still coursing through Mark Cavendish as he slides
his slender 11 stone into his favourite Soho café.

It is a week since he became world champion and Cavendish admits he has
blubbed tears of joy just looking at photographs of that historic day in
Copenhagen. “If I’m honest, I’ve welled up a few times,” he says.

Then there was the overwhelming burst of pride as he slipped into his rainbow
jersey for the first time to go on a training ride. “I just kept looking
down, looking at it,” he says. “I did that the